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Athletics Navigational Boxes: National Distance Running Hall of Fame Inductees, Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine, Mary Decker, Bill Bowerman

Athletics Navigational Boxes: National Distance Running Hall of Fame Inductees, Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine, Mary Decker, Bill Bowerman


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 131. Not illustrated. Chapters: National Distance Running Hall of Fame Inductees, Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine, Mary Decker, Bill Bowerman, Alberto Salazar, Grete Waitz, Bill Rodgers, Billy Mills, H. Browning Ross, Joan Benoit, Frank Shorter, Bob Schul, Johnny Hayes, Ted Corbitt, Gerry Lindgren, John J. Kelley, Lynn Jennings, Clarence Demar, Marty Liquori, Greg Meyer, George Young, Johnny Kelley, Amby Burfoot, Craig Virgin, William Dellinger, Fred Lebow, Don Kardong, Nina Kuscsik, Kathrine Switzer, Priscilla Welch, Doris Brown Heritage, Francie Larrieu-Smith. Excerpt: James Ronald ("Jim") Ryun (born April 29, 1947) is an American former track athlete and politician, who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 to 2007, representing the 2nd District in Kansas. In the 2006 election, Ryun was defeated by Democratic challenger Nancy Boyda. In the Kansas Republican primary on August 5, 2008, he was defeated by Kansas State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins. Years prior to his political career, Ryun had an athletic career that saw him become one of the greatest runners of all time, and the last American to hold the world record in the mile run. His career was highlighted by many world record times, although in his three tries he never won an Olympic gold medal. In 1966, at age nineteen, Ryun set world records in the mile and the half-mile runs, and received Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award, as well as the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, the ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year, and was voted Track & Field News' Athlete of the Year as the worlds best track & field athlete. Ironically, Ryun did all of this before he was permitted to run for the school he attended, University of Kansas, since NCAA rules at the time did not allow freshmen to compet...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781157973294
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Weight: 204 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157973299
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: National Distance Running Hall of Fame Inductees, Jim Ryun, Steve Prefontaine, Mary Decker, Bill Bowerman
  • Width: 152 mm


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